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Consol. ad Apolon. non est libertate nostra positum non dolere, misericordiam abolet, &c. 3887.
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For instance, words like dolere, “suffer,” and dolor, “pain,” were said to have the same significatio, namely, pain, but different modi significandi: one signifying per modum fieri, the other per modum substantiae.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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Pars dolere pro gloria imperii, pars insolita rerum bellicarum timere libertati, [234] Aulo omnes infesti, ac maxime, qui bello saepe praeclari fuerant, quod armatus dedecore potius quam manu salutem quaesiverat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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"Vehementer dolere nostratium Theologorum sortem sanctissime linguæ scientia carentium, et linguarum doctrinam fuisse intermissam."
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It made him rather sad that he could not be sorry -- _dolebat se dolere non posse_ -- for the man who, whether with or without some feeling of kindliness towards his unknown nephew, had contributed so much to his well-being; for he felt that Wilsthorpe was a place in which he could be happy, and especially happy, it might be, in its library.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories 1899
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Hilary distinguishes the feeling of pain (dolere, dolor) from the physical cause of pain, i.e. the cutting and piercing of the body
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Christ's body suffered (pati) but He could not feel pain (dolere): see c.
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[268] Hilary was undoubtedly influenced more than he knew by the Latin words pati and dolere, the one purely objective, the other subjective.
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Sometimes, in his attempt at consolation, he adduces images which, like the Delphian knife, are double-handled, and cut both ways: -- hinc indignatur se mortalem esse creatum nec videt in vera nullum fore morte alium se qui possit vivus sibi se lugere peremptum stansque iacentem se lacerari urive dolere.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Sometimes, in his attempt at consolation, he adduces images which, like the Delphian knife, are double-handled, and cut both ways: -- hinc indignatur se mortalem esse creatum nec videt in vera nullum fore morte alium se qui possit vivus sibi se lugere peremptum stansque iacentem se lacerari urive dolere.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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